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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1910
Page
1
Maynard notes show Theodore Nelson with a Stanley steamer payroll near eighteen thousand, and visits by many residents from Providence Biddeford Pool and Boston. Local business moves include new store occupancy and rail work delays. civic updates cover water bills, lodge installations, and a planned trolley trip to Mt Wachusett.
The Bedford column covers a baseball win over Belmont with Thaxter’s pitching and Crosby’s four hits, plus town repairs to crossings and police aid at Lexington park. It notes Parent-Teacher Association subject submissions due August 15, Edison Co offers a large electric sign for Bedford with free placement, and Past Warden association events with Minute Man lodge at Lexington park.
South Sudbury notes include calm Independence Day observance and many residents traveling out of town. Sherrald Garfield sought hospital care after a Fourth firecracker injury. State highway work begins from Marlboro to the Boston and Maine crossing with A. W. Stone contracting gravel. Mrs Edwin Rogers laid to rest at Mt Wadsworth beside husband. Miss Griffin leaves Wadsworth school after two years of praised teaching and discipline.
Fred F. Cook of Bedford belongs to the Lexington Minute Men who received a replica flag carried by colonists on April 19 1775. The blue field flag with golden fringe, made to resemble the original rose silk colors, is kept under glass in a Bedford library trustees vault. The original flag was carried by the great grandfather of Judge Elihu G. Loomis in Boston on July Fourth.
Mrs C West from Weat ford called on friends in South Acton on Tuesday. Robert Mains of Amesbury visited sister Mrs F Stiles on Monday. Mrs Clara E Holt visits West Somerville and Lynn this week and saw President Taft Monday. Wilbur F Hosmer of Wakefield and family spent Independence Day with his uncle at Sun shine Villa. Next week Saturday the Old Colony Trust Company baseball club will play Acton on the Stow grounds.
John A. Howland notes Spitzbergen as a polar frontier with abundant wildlife including reindeer and polar bear, growing tourism, coal deposits, and potential diplomatic decisions shaping its future amid Arctic isolation and blue summer days.
Framing ham unit to camp with the 6th regiment on July 22. Frank B Harris earns an undertaker license from the board of health. Several towns report visits, sales, and travel, including 40 acres to be sold by Erastus H Smith, and trips by residents to Hopkinton, Laconia, and New Rochelle. Local social events include Bible society gatherings and holiday celebrations at Harmony lodge.
Outlook remains uncertain as merchants resist a set afternoon closing. Efforts to reach agreement continue this week with plans to close one afternoon weekly from next Wednesday through August. Clerks await the outcome while discussions include a possible meeting of interested parties.
Maynard shoppers visit Cholettes while Frank Joyce leaves Riverside laundry. Edward Comeau buys and rew Maxwell automobile. Kennan Damon visits his parents on Main. Miss Goldie O Keefe returns home for summer from school. Mrs Albert M Bubinger retires from Lawrence. John Maguire takes Boston street railway conductor post. Miss Violet Weeks visits Miss Theo Lovejoy. Mr Brooks, ex Reformatory officer, visits town. New fire engine praised for speed. B F P Russell return from Hartford. Edward McClellan goes on vacation. John David fills route. Sheehan adds stock farm animals including a pony and a monkey.
Miss Edith Annie Stevenson and Frank Exgar Waite wed at the Stevenson home with Rev Silas II officiating. The ceremony in a fern and daisy adorned altar followed by a reception, a serenade for the couple, and a wedding tour beginning Tuesday. Both are popular locals with the bride a Concord high graduate and the groom a post office clerk. They plan to reside in a new Central Street home.
Old Wright's Tavern in Concord Massachusetts now operates under new management. Charles C Wellman proprietor advertises moderate board rates and offers lodging by phone.
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